The company I keep My life in beauty
Book - 2020
"Former CEO of Estée Lauder, Leonard Lauder, shares the business and life lessons he learned while turning the company his mother founded into a multi-billion dollar enterprise"--
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Autobiographies
Biographies - Published
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New York, NY :
Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
[2020]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- viii, 423 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-410) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780062990945
- Part I: A family affair. "Fiddling with other people's faces" ; "Telephone. Telegraph. Tell-a-woman." ; "Beauty is your duty" ; Saks appeal ; "She's giving away the whole business!" ; "You should be a chemist" ; "The Navy gave me a Ph.D. in hands-on leadership"
- Part II: Follow the Lauder. "I have so many good ideas!" ; "The Evie and Lenny show" ; First to market always wins ; The Revlon wars ; "It takes a thief"
- Part III: The metamorphosis of beauty. The golden decade ; The Lancôme wars ; "A family in business" ; A controversial decision
- Part IV: The collector's art. The three "O's" ; "Trees don't grow to the sky"
- Part V: "I could make a difference". The pied piper of playgrounds ; Preparing for a global future ; Validating a vision for medical breakthroughs ; Transforming museums ; My legacy: transforming people
- Afterword. A second chance at love.